Focus Countries - Nigeria

Recent Grants

Population and Reproductive Health
Human Rights
Higher Education in Nigeria

Population and Reproductive Health

Number of Grants: 19

Action Health, Incorporated (Yaba, Nigeria)
$250,000 to promote pre-service Family Life and HIV Education quality assurance and youth-friendly reproductive health services in Nigeria (over 18 months). (2010)

Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (Zaria, Nigeria)
$300,000 to support the Community Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative. (2010)

Catholics For Choice (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 to strengthen sexual and reproductive health advocacy in Nigeria. (2011)

Center for Communication and Reproductive Health Services (Bida, Nigeria)
$250,000 to strengthen the Family Life and Health Education project in Niger State through a comprehensive pre-training strategy (over three years). (2009)

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington, D.C.)
$270,000 to accelerate efforts to save mothers' lives through task shifting of human resources for health and integrated ambulance services. (2009)

Centre for Women Studies and Intervention (Garki, Nigeria)
$25,000 to conduct and disseminate research on harmful traditional practices. (2009)

Community Health and Research Initiative (Kano, Nigeria)
$300,000 to support advocacy and budget tracking for improved maternal health services, with a view to reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in Kano, Bauchi and Sokoto states (over three years). (2010)

Girls' Power Initiative, Nigeria (Calabar, Nigeria)
$250,000 to scale up implementation of the national sexuality education curriculum and training of health providers on youth friendly services in Cross River State (over three years). (2010)

Health Partners International (Lewes, United Kingdom)
$120,000 to support research on emergency transport schemes in Nigeria (over two years). (2010)

Ipas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$500,000 to increase access to post-abortion care services in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

Management Strategies for Africa (Abuja, Nigeria)
$330,000 to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of NGOs working on reproductive health in Nigeria (over three years). (2011)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$980,000 in support of an action-research program on improving maternal health in Nigeria (over three years). (2010)

National Commission on Colleges of Education (Abuja, Nigeria)
$250,000 to train pre-service teachers in colleges of education (over three years). (2009)

OneWorld UK (London, United Kingdom)
$525,000 in support of the Learning About Living project in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

Pathfinder International (Watertown, Massachusetts)
$165,000 to improve maternal health in Nigeria (over 18 months). (2009)

Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria (Abuja, Nigeria)
$1,200,000 to support an action-research program on improving maternal health in Nigeria (over three years). (2010)

Population Services International (Washington, D.C.)
$223,000 to increase availability, access and use of Misoprostol for the prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage. (2011)

Women's Health and Action Research Centre (Benin City, Nigeria)
$250,000 in support of research to improve policies and programs for promoting maternal health in six states of Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

Youth, Adolescent, Reflection and Action Center (Jos, Nigeria)
$125,000 to expand young people's access to quality Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education in Plateau State. (2010)

Human Rights

Number of Grants: 23

Alliance for Credible Elections (Abuja, Nigeria)
$430,000 to promote citizen participation in the electoral reform process (over one year). (2009)

Centre for Constitutionalism and Demilitarisation (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$200,000 to research, documentation, and the publish an annual report on the state of human rights in Nigeria (over two years). (2010)

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Abuja, Nigeria)
$100,000 to consolidate justice sector reform. (2010)

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Abuja, Nigeria)
$240,000 to improving judicial protection of human rights. (2009)

Citizens Assistance Centre (Ikorodu, Nigeria)
$30,000 to support a class action suite for illegally detained inmates awaiting trial in Lagos State and to publish a Resource Book to be entitled,"Out of the Cage" . (2009)

CLEEN Foundation (Ojodu, Nigeria)
$1,150,000 to support a police-public partnership in policing policy formulation and implementation and to conduct and disseminate crime victimization surveys in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

CLEEN Foundation (Ojodu, Nigeria)
$200,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

Community Action for Popular Participation (Abuja, Nigeria)
$250,000 to support community-driven peace building in Plateau State, Nigeria (over two years). (2010)

East Africa Law Society (Arusha, Tanzania)
$300,000 to promote knowledge of both regional and sub-regional human rights mechanisms and procedures among lawyers in East Africa (over 3 years). (2009)

Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (Lagos, Nigeria)
$100,000 in support of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy. (2010)

Legal Defence and Assistance Project (Anthony Village, Nigeria)
$450,000 to promote and improve coordination among criminal justice institutions and develop a national policy and strategy on the prosecution of crimes in Nigeria (over two years). (2011)

Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (Abuja, Nigeria)
$380,000 to support implementation of law clinics and the Clinical Legal Education program in Nigerian law schools to complement official legal aid services (over three years). (2010)

Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$300,000 to document, expose, and seek remedy for human rights violations by the police in Nigeria (over two years). (2009)

Nigeria Coalition on International Criminal Court (Abuja, Nigeria)
$250,000 to promote the International Criminal Court in Nigeria and Africa (over two years). (2010)

Nigerian Bar Association (Abuja, Nigeria)
$300,000 to train Nigerian lawyers on regional and sub-regional mechanisms for human rights protection and Nigeria's new Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules (over two years). (2011)

Partnership for Justice (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$200,000 to monitor the Nigerian government's implementation of the Human Rights National Action Plan (over two years). (2010)

Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (Abuja, Nigeria)
$500,000 to consolidate gains of the 2011 general elections in Nigeria (over two years). (2011)

Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (Abuja, Nigeria)
$400,000 to improve the administration and credibility of elections in Nigeria. (2010)

Social and Economic Rights Action Center (Lagos, Nigeria)
$450,000 to advance economic, social, and cultural rights in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (Lagos, Nigeria)
$350,000 to conduct strategic litigation before national, sub-regional, and regional courts (over three years). (2011)

Transition Monitoring Group (Abuja, Nigeria)
$400,000 to improve civic education for the 2011 general elections. (2010)

WANGONeT (Ikoyi, Nigeria)
$230,000 to support credible elections in Nigeria. (2010)

Women's Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (Abuja, Nigeria)
$350,000 in support of a project on Islamic Family Law (over three years). (2010)

Higher Education in Nigeria

Number of Grants: 26

African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, Kenya)
$850,000 to strengthen capacity in Africa for graduate training in economics and policy research (over four years). (2009)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$884,737 to strengthen the Master's in Public Health program (over three years). (2011)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$850,000 to support training and research in microfinance and entrepreneurship to strengthen access to credit by Nigeria's poor (over three years). (2011)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$890,000 to establish a graduate program in veterinary epidemiology (over three years). (2011)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$29,159 to plan for a Master's in Veterinary Epidemiology program. (2010)

Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria, Nigeria)
$950,000 to strengthen program in development communication (over three years). (2010)

Bayero University, Kano (Kano, Nigeria)
$800,000 to establish a Center for Dryland Agriculture (over three years). (2011)

Bayero University, Kano (Kano, Nigeria)
$43,000 to plan and prepare activities for the establishment of a University Center for Dryland Agriculture. (2010)

Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)
$60,000 to develop the Igbo Online Resources Project, a digital resource documenting Igbo dialects. (2011)

Federal University of Technology Minna (Minna, Nigeria)
$50,000 to enhance Information and Communication Technology. (2009)

Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (New York, New York)
$175,000 to improve pedagogy by strengthening linkages between universities and the Nigerian diaspora (over three years). (2009)

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre (Abuja, Nigeria)
$50,000 to support research on global citizenship. (2009)

Tides Center Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (San Francisco, California)
$75,000 in support of the Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (over three years). (2009)

University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
$113,166 to strengthen the Master's in Public Health program (over three years). (2011)

University of Antananarivo Faculty of Sciences (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
$400,000 to improve training, research, and policymaking related to biodiversity conservation and climate change science (over three years). (2011)

University of Benin (Benin City, Nigeria)
$50,000 to set up a center for educational technologies. (2009)

University of Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$980,000 to establish a graduate training and research program in Petroleum and Energy Economics and Law (over three years). (2010)

University of Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$950,000 to build training and research capacity in the fields of population and public health (over four years). (2010)

University of Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$950,000 to improve child and adolescent mental health service delivery through a new Master's degree program (over four years). (2010)

University of Ibadan - Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$890,000 to improve graduate training for surveillance of human-animal diseases in West Africa (over three years). (2011)

University of Ibadan - Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$950,000 to establish a program to improve the quality and availability of essential medicines in West Africa (over three years). (2011)

University of Ibadan - Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$60,000 to develop the university museum as an educational and cultural resource. (2009)

University of Ibadan - Nigeria (Ibadan, Nigeria)
$232,000 to strengthen the Africa Regional Centre for Information Science of the University of Ibadan (over three years). (2009)

University of Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
$700,000 to establish the Institute of Natural Resources, Environment, and Sustainable Development (over three years). (2011)

University of Port Harcourt (Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
$990,000 to establish a new program in petroleum geosciences at the Institute of Petroleum Studies (over three years). (2010)

University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)
$69,000 to strengthen the Africa Regional Centre for Information Science of the University of Ibadan (over three years). (2009)